He may have led authorities to the most wanted drug lord in the world.

But Sean Penn - and his grandiose 10,000-word article about meeting Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzmán - has become a laughing stock on Twitter in Mexico.

Ripping into his Hollywood-style account of their jungle rendez-vous, Mexicans have coined the hash tag #NoSeanPenndejos, a pun on his name and the vulgar slang phrase 'no sean pendejos' ('don't be f***ing stupid').

It is a revival of the pun #Penndejo ('f***ing idiot') which emerged in the Spanish language circles of social media during the Oscar's last year after Penn introduced Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu and said: 'Who gave this son of a b**** his green card?'

The tweets on Sunday ranged from tongue-in-cheek to serious.

Sean Penn was mocked by Mexican Twitter users for his bizarre role in the events that led to El Chapo's capture. The tweets on Sunday ranged from tongue-in-cheek to serious, such as this one

Many accused Penn of getting away with something that Latino, Black or Arab people would be arrested for

The hash tag was also used to mock Penn's suggestion that he doesn't know if laptops exist any more

This is the now notorious photo of Penn shaking hands with El Chapo as he was on the run from authorities

One Twitter user mocked the part of Penn's article when he claims he has never encountered a laptop.

Others slammed the actor for shaking hands with and fawning over a drugs lord - after thousands of Mexican journalists have died trying to expose the atrocities of the Sinaloa cartel.

Many also used the phrase to slam Mexico's president Enrique Pena Nieto, sharing a picture of his face with the phrase 'NoSeanPenndejo'.

Latino Rebels, an English-language news site about Latino issues, tweeted: 'So it looks like #Penndejo hashtag is back. For good reason, too.'

And another pun surfaced once President Nieto tweeted about El Chapo's capture, with people mocking the president for relying on a Hollywood actor to apprehend him.

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The tweets began emerging on Sunday as Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio also took aim at Penn's bizarre role in the stitch-up.

The Republican presidential hopeful applauded Mexican marines for detaining the fugitive cartel leader, and that he hopes El Chapo will be extradited to the United States for sentencing.

But he mocked Penn's involvement saying with a smirk on ABC's This Week: 'Sean Penn is not someone I spend a lot of time thinking about, I didn't even know he was still around, I think he made movies a long time ago.'

Some used the hash tag to hit out at President Nieto (pictured). This tweet roughly means: 'This b****** is still mugging us while he distracts our attention'. El Chapo was on the run for six months until Penn met with him

Plotted: The meeting in Mexico was arranged by Penn, Mexican actress Kate del Castillo (pictured with Penn and musicians) and a fixer

BIZARRE MOMENTS IN SEAN PENN'S SEVEN-HOUR CHAT WITH EL CHAPO

1. Sean Penn admits he has never learned how to use a laptop computer.

'At 55 years old, I've never learned to use a laptop. Do they still make laptops?'

2. Penn thought his penis might get chopped off.

'D**k in hand, I do consider it among my body parts vulnerable to the knives of irrational narco types, and take a fond last look, before tucking it back into my pants.'

3. Penn has a drunken day dream about a drone.

'I look to the sky and wonder how funny it would be if there were a weaponized drone above us. We are in a clearing, sitting right out in the open. I down the tequila, and the drone goes away.'

5. For some reason, Penn doesn't want to smile in a photograph with El Chapo.

'I explain that, for authentication purposes, it would be best if we are shaking hands, looking into the camera, but not smiling.'

6. Penn compares El Chapo to a superhero for putting on body armor and picking up a gun.

'Following this Clark Kent-into-Superman extravaganza.'

7. Penn offers to snuggle up to an associate of El Chapo.

''Listen, man. You don't have to sleep on that couch. The bed's big. We can talk and cuddle.''

8. Penn's flatulence in front of El Chapo.

'At this moment, I expel a minor traveler's flatulence (sorry), and with it, I experience the same chivalry he'd offered when putting Kate to bed, as he pretends not to notice.'

Affording the double Oscar winner a touch of praise, he said: 'I guess [the Mexicans] used the interview that he had in order to find him. That’s fantastic. I hope they extradite El Chapo to the United States.'

But ultimately he dismissed Penn as 'grotesque', accusing him of 'fawning' over Guzmán in his 10,000-word Rolling Stone article about their jungle rendezvous.

'If one of these American actors who have benefited from the greatness of this country, who have made money from our free enterprise system, want to go fawn all over a criminal and a drug trafficker in their interviews, they have a Constitutional right to do it,' Rubio said.

'I find it grotesque.'

Mexico has begun formal extradition proceedings against El Chapo but such a process could take months.

The sensational meeting took place deep in the Mexican jungle in October and was arranged by Penn, Mexican actress Kate del Castillo and a fixer, with the permission of the Sinaloa cartel.

El Chapo admitted in the bizarre interview to being the biggest drug trafficker in the world and said he sent engineers to Germany to learn how to build the tunnel he would eventually use to escape a maximum security prison.

The cartel boss was captured on Friday in a daring 4am raid by Mexican marines and was returned to Altiplano jail. The double Oscar-winning actor's meeting with El Chapo led to the gun battle in which he was captured, an official said.

The U.S. has filed at least seven extradition requests in six different states for Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman to be extradited but justice officials warned that his lawyers were likely to 'milk it' by firing off different appeals at different stages of the extradition battle to prolong the legal tussle.